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|title=Grace and Mary

|author=Melvyn Bragg

|publisher=Sceptre

|date=May 2013

|website=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/melvyn-bragg

|summary=John pieces together his ageing mother's childhood memories to form a picture of his spirited grandmother, Grace.

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Grace and Mary is a tender and moving account spanning three generations of the same family. In the first chapter, we are introduced to ninety-two year old Mary and her doting son, John. Mary is in a nursing home and has dementia, hovering in a limbo-world, precariously balanced between the present and the past. John delights when he catches the occasional glimpse of the ''real'' Mary, and they find a meeting place, of sorts in their shared world of memories and songs.